The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-02-19
BILL NYE INVITES A MICHIGAN
MAN TO COME DOWN TO
NORTH CAROLINA.
letter to the New york world from Ashevil:e.

lDSt'etbO ~ SAAS SNSh 1OAA tAOllu HOHA AsnSsAAe
Here is genuine letter which reach
ed me the other day
HowARD CRY, Mich, Jan. 18th, 1887.
Bill Nye, Esq
Dear Sir IL, reading your letter in th
Paper was. much pleased with the discrip
ton of the country you give me in you
letter So I. thought I. would write you. q
few. lines. for. information as. 1, am.
living hear in the Snow banks and woul,
like To. get out of this country wher
there is no snow to keep me bound il
during the winter monts, j. am. a. Poo
Man but honest and have lived hear tn,
Epast twenty years g have a wife ant
u one Child, and I, have made up Ny min6
4 ia / perhaps tliat you would be gooC
enough to give me the particulars Wha
the Chances. would be for Poor man tC
lget living in that, country where you
now Remain. 1. am good with the Al
the Saw the ploW or the hoe. l. love. to
fish. and. hunt, am. a. good. wing. shot
please state what kinds of game there. is
and. the. brooks I. suppose are full o.
trout I, suppose, they mint be in gooC
demand in the Markets in the Season
hoping you will give me your opinion tc
the best of your knowledge What my
chances would be. in. a. place. like
Asheville hopeing to hear from you
I, Remain Yours Truley
The above letter is sample only of g
profuse, one-sided correspondence that
has sprung up on the heels of briei
article relative to the climate of Ashe.
vile, N. c., which appeared early in the
winter over my signature in the WORLD
Had I dreamed that the article referred
to would bring such torrent of fractured
English and such simoom of interroga.
ton points, 1 would have restrained
myself.
All can do, therefore, is to retract and
apologize. 1 want to be placed once
more where was before began to gel
letters inquiring about the climate. 1 am
the victim of too much notoriety. People
write to me from all quarters of the Union
to ask things of which I am grossly
ignorant. have been compelled, as a
result of that incautious letter in the
WORLD, to take off two of my autograph
men and put them on this climate cor
respondence. So l now state through
the same columns where the original
letter appeared that apologize.
| ~ GAlS correspondent WIZ WIlJ65 1uO
above letter let me say: Come to North
Carolina and you will never regret it. It
is land flowing with milk, honey and
tar. 1t is full of health, climate and
smoking It will do you good
to come here to live till you actually get
tired of it.
1t is so extremely conducive to health
here that people grow to an enormous
height. Even the preachers grow to be
over 6 feet high here. A clergyman call
ed on me the other day, and asked me
to address the SabbathTl 2gl, who is 6
feet iuebeg high Isa. ~ ~ rlfisss wiIo
could ask a blessing in aafnble way If
he had time, or if he happened to be in a
hurry he could reach over and help him
self.
I am 6feet high myself and moderately
active for one of my age, but would no
more rise in that mans congregation and
make the remark, "gosh," than would
select perdition as good site for fire.
cracker factory.
Relative to the chances for poor man
in this country, where l now remain,
that being my principal business, will
say in a cursory way that poverty is not
regarded as violation of the statutes
here in North Carolina. People have
lived here for years in the most abject
poverty right under the nose of the
Grand Jury. So you need not stay away
on that account. Moreover, the poor
people of the North Carolina mountains
are thousand-fold more contented than
the poor people of the North. If a man
must be poor all his life what can be of
more use to him than eontentment i?
That is the great difference between
Northern and Southern poverty. What
does Tar-heel mountaineer care about
strikes? What does he care because
other people are wearing underclothlng ?
He don't care cent.
He bitches up his little two-year old
speckled heifer to Democratic wagon,
hauls 40 cents worth of wood to town,
and goes home contented.. Verify the
South is where contentment is at.
l feel safe in saying that you would do
well here. You would be welcomed as
soon as you landed here and you would
find the best climate you ever threw your
lip over.
You could work here all day through
the winter and play lawn tennis i'll your
shirt sleeves by moonlight, or chase the
festive coon from precipice to precipice.
am glad to read that you are good
wing shot. It will give you. standing
in society which might otherwise take
you years to secure. North Carolina
needs more good wing shots. She has
sturdy, thrifty, Wbole-souled |
enterprising class of business men, but
she is little short on wing shots.
So come any time. Wilh be at the |
depot when you arrive. ,WeuI9 isannoy |
; ou if were to bring the band down to |
the depot with me? We hnvaa very fair
all around band here, composed of self
made eolored men who play ina chaste
and unconstrained way that will not |
frighten you much if you are used to loud
snorts of melancholy. The members of
this band have now perfected themselves
to such an extent that they play right
along Just as f1uently without their lead
er, and while he up-ends his horn to pour
out the juice they take up the air and
carry it along in such way that you
could not miss the leader, and they en-
bellish all their music and improVise SO
much that you could not tell what tune
they were playing. Still, will do just
as you say about having the band down
at the depot when you come.
BILL NYE.
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